A Bus & A Beer the Perfect Couple
563 We start a new series of articles in this edition aimed at providing readers with ideas for great days out, visiting our more rural pubs, by using local buses or trains to avoid the need for one person to be the nominated driver. We have tried to select routes that either have several buses a day at reasonable drinking intervals or operate on those routes that visit either end of a reasonable ‘hike & pint’. This quarter’s featured bus route is the Grand Prix Coaches 563 Penrith to Kirkby Stephen via Appleby & Brough.
So why not 'Ease into Eden’ on the 563 There is a good Monday to Saturday service; You can buy a 'Day Ticket' & hop on/hop off at whichever pub you want. It’s called the ‘Diamond Day Ticket - well it is jubilee year! Penrith, Appleby, Sandford, Warcop, Brough & Kirkby Stephen all have great real ale pubs Buses Leave Kirkby Stephen at 1210 1510 1720 1732 1920 Buses Leave Penrith at 1051 1403 1606 1816 2110* [* Mon/Thurs only] For timetable go to www.cumbria.gov.uk/buses then see 'Penrith & Eden'. For more information phone Traveline 0871 200 22 33 or visit www.cumbria.gov.uk/buses
Next edition we will look at Public Transport on the western side of Westmorland. 13